Dentist in Colorado Springs for Removal of root canal treated teeth

I am Dr. Chris Brady. Um, I’d like to answer a question that we get oftentimes in, in our dental office is, um, patient will typically come in and they’ll say, Dr. Brady, I had a root canal done either recently or maybe sometimes even 20 or 30 years ago. And, um, what should I do about the root canal?
And my answer always is, it just depends on what you want to do. It’s your body. You get to choose. And so people say, well, are they safe?
And I’d say, well, it depends. That is also depending too, depending on your own immune system and those kinds of things.
But typically, most people that come to my office want to have the root canal, tooth root, canal, tooth out and get rid of any infection that’s around the tooth. And so I’d like to describe a little bit, just briefly, not to scare anybody off, but just briefly, what we do when we do take the tooth, the tooth out, the most important part is really to clean the inside of the, the, the dent, the socket where the tooth was. Make sure that that’s all clean spic and span.
There’s a periodontal ligament that many of you have read about that sometimes will harbor that bacteria. And so we have to make sure that’s completely taken out. We also put Betadine in that area. We put ozone in the area. I have a thing called a piezo surgery unit that will also, uh, kind of go around and just speak and spin, make the inside of that very, very clean. Then after that we put some sort of a bone grafting material.
We don’t use cadaver bone in our office. We use a synthetic that is very, very healthy and we’ll, we will basically go away after six, eight months, something like that. So it, it really is a, an important process.
We also recommend that when you do the bone grafting, we also put in the bone grafting material. We can put in, uh, a compound called metronidazole. And that is a, an antibacterial, it’s an antibiotic.
And uh, the thing that’s nice about that is it doesn’t go through your system.
It just is, it goes in that area. And so you don’t have to take the antibiotic in your gut or anything like that. Um, we also recommend that you put some sort of an implant or tooth replacement in that area. The kind that we use are tied, are not titanium implants. They are zirconia implants. They’re made of a non-metal, and they don’t have any of the properties or qualities that metal does.
Um, metal can sometimes actually attract 5G waves. They’ve proven that in Europe. And so we use specifically something that’s an inner material that is going to be safe for your body, that your body doesn’t care that it’s there. And so that’s what we recommend. Uh, the question oftentimes also is, is, gee, do I have to replace the tooth?
And the answer is definitely, you don’t have to. But it’s usually best for your body to have that tooth replaced because the teeth on either side can sometimes start to drift. The one on the, if it’s a bottom tooth, the one on the top will come down. And so it messes up all the rest of the teeth. Teeth Are a team. They’re made as one unit and should function well together. So call us today. We’d love to help you. Again, this is something that we do on a routine basis. Uh, your situation might be different, but uh, again, we’d love to see you give our office a call.